PARIS: English Premier League club West Ham suffered a shock defeat by Romanian side Astra Giurgiu on Thursday (Aug 25) that saw them knocked out of the Europa League in a mirror image of last season's campaign.

Brendan Steele and Matt Kuchar made the most of calm conditions on Friday to share the halfway lead at the Memorial, where Jason Day, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth remained in the hunt heading into the weekend.

SINGAPORE, May 12 -- Singapore Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat, who had been tipped as a potential successor to prime minister Lee Hsien Loong, suffered a stroke and collapsed during a cabinet meeting on Thursday, the office of the city-state's prime minister said.

Though metabolic diseases do not spread like infectious ones, they are as dangerous as other; accordingly metabolic diseases and non-communicable diseases are included in the National healthcare program like diabetes, high blood pressure, and blood lipid.